SAN FRANCISCO — David Peralta hit a tiebreaking single within the tenth inning, and the San Diego Padres overcame Heliot Ramos changing into the primary right-handed batter to homer into McCovey Cove with a 4-3 win over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday that accomplished a three-game sweep.
Ramos hit a 394-foot, opposite-field drive into the water behind the right-field stands within the ninth off Robert Suarez (9-3), tying the rating 2-2. There have been 167 splash homers by left-handed batters for the reason that ballpark opened in 2000, together with 104 by Giants hitters.
“It appears to be like inconceivable simply by wanting on the wall and the climate right here,” Ramos mentioned, including that the feat was “insane” to him.
The 25-year-old mentioned he was all the time conscious that no right-handed hitter had a splash hit and needed to be the primary.
“We misplaced, clearly, however it’s a big day as a result of I did that,” Ramos mentioned. “It is a good accomplishment for me.”
San Diego (85-65) is within the high NL wild-card place with two weeks to play, 1½ video games forward of Arizona.
“This staff is on a mission. We undoubtedly need to get there,” mentioned Fernando Tatis Jr., who had a pinch homer within the eighth.
San Francisco has misplaced 4 straight.
With the rating 2-2, Peralta drove in automated runner Jake Cronenworth with an opposite-field single to left main off the tenth towards Camilo Doval (5-3). Peralta took third on Luis Arraez’s double and scored on Donovan Solano’s groundout for a 4-2 lead.
Michael Conforto hit a sacrifice fly within the backside half towards Adrián Morejon, who retired Patrick Bailey on a groundout for his second save.
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The Padres improved to 9-1 in extra-inning video games, the best profitable proportion within the large leagues. Supervisor Mike Shildt mentioned his staff has a “starvation to win and compete” and gamers who “do what the sport requires.”
“It is about execution,” Shildt mentioned. “You get into shut video games, it is about execution.”
Tatis mentioned the Padres have emphasised making contact over going for the facility swing, enabling them to reach shut video games.
“It is stunning,” Tatis mentioned. “It is wonderful. I have never seen nothing like how good now we have been this yr on these events.”
The Giants had been scoreless in 32 innings, three shy of the San Francisco report set in 1976, earlier than Donovan Walton’s solo homer within the sixth towards MartÃn Pérez. Manny Machado had hit a sacrifice fly within the high half.
Tatis homered towards Tyler Rogers within the eighth, his fourth dwelling run in 5 video games.
Arraez prolonged his streak to 140 at-bats with out a strikeout for the Padres. It is the longest since Juan Pierre went 147 at-bats with out a strikeout in 2004. Arraez additionally had two hits to increase his hit streak to 13 video games.
After calling his gamers’ defensive effort in an 8-0 loss on Saturday “not main league high quality,” Giants supervisor Bob Melvin had his staff undergo defensive drills in each the infield and outfield earlier than Sunday’s recreation.
Melvin mentioned with a “fully completely different group” in comparison with spring coaching and a few gamers like Brett Properly and Marco Luciano enjoying out of place, the Giants are engaged on communication and chemistry.
“It actually is not one thing that actually must be punitive,” Melvin mentioned earlier than the sport. “However we have to attempt to keep on high of stuff like this, as a result of it has to look higher than it did [on Saturday].”
The Giants had one error on Sunday when Mark Canha misplayed a grounder to first by Solano within the sixth that put runners on first and second with no outs. Jurickson Profar sacrificed and Machado’s fly introduced within the first run.
“We make an error right this moment that has an influence, so [it’s the] little issues proper now and positively an absence of offense,” Melvin mentioned.